Site Reliability Engineer

The Charles Schwab Corp

Austin, TX

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Apache Kafka, Automation, Best Practices, Budget Management, Business Operations, Capacity Management, Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Customer Experience, Customer/Client Research, Database Technology, DevOps, Engineering, Finance, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), Improvement Metrics, Incident Management, Leadership, Machine Tool, Operational Improvement, Operations Processes, Pivotal CRM, PostgreSQL, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Product Lifecycle, Production Support, Python Programming/Scripting Language, RabbitMQ, Reliability Engineering, SQL (Structured Query Language), Software Administration, Software Development, System Operations, Systems Scalability, Technical Leadership, Technical Support, Telemetry
LOCATION
Austin, TX
POSTED
14 days ago

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

As a Sr Specialist - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) within Client Data Technology, you will play a critical role in ensuring the availability, performance, and resiliency of highly visible cloud-based platforms and applications. In this role, you will influence how systems are designed, built, and operated, driving measurable improvements in reliability and scalability while advancing modern SRE practices across the organization. You will partner closely with engineering and platform teams to define and implement sustainable operating models, enabling consistent, repeatable, and high-performing systems at scale.

Your impact will include identifying and executing opportunities to enhance service health and telemetry, shaping and delivering forward-looking resiliency and availability roadmaps, and leading the adoption of cloud-native technologies aligned with established SRE standards. Through strong collaboration and technical leadership, you will promote a proactive, "shift-left" approach that embeds reliability, fault tolerance, and performance into the development lifecycle from the start. This role requires a balance of strategic thinking and hands-on problem-solving to optimize systems, reduce operational toil, and improve key metrics such as MTTD and MTTR, ultimately ensuring a seamless and reliable experience for clients.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
  • 6+ years of software development and site reliability engineering experience supporting production applications in cloud environments such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • 4+ years of DevOps engineering leadership experience focused on automation, tooling, and improving production operations
  • 2+ years of technical leadership experience guiding engineering teams and driving operational efficiencies
  • 2+ years of experience implementing and maturing operational best practices, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, monitoring, capacity planning, and incident management processes
  • Proficiency in programming and automation using tools such as Python, CloudFormation, or Terraform to build infrastructure-as-code solutions
  • Strong knowledge of database technologies (SQL, Aerospike, Postgres)
  • Experience working with messaging and streaming platforms such as RabbitMQ and Kafka

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 4+ years of advanced technical leadership experience supporting highly skilled engineering teams
  • Demonstrated ability to influence development teams to design and build cloud-native systems that are scalable, maintainable, and resilient from initial deployment onward

About the Company

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The Charles Schwab Corp

The Charles Schwab Corporation is a leading provider of financial services, with more than 300 offices. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. Named "Highest in Investor Satisfaction with Self-Directed Services" by J.D. Power and Associates in 2009, its broker-dealer subsidiary, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC) affiliates offer a complete range of investment services and products including an extensive selection of mutual funds; financial planning and investment advice; retirement plan and equity compensation plan services; referrals to independent fee-based investment advisors; and custodial, operational and trading support for independent, fee-based investment advisors through Schwab Advisor Services.

The Charles Schwab Bank (member FDIC) provides banking and mortgage services and products. To meet the needs of our clients, we are actively recruiting people with the desire, drive and creativity to find solutions that help meet our clients' needs; who want the chance to learn, grow with the company and explore their career opportunities; who will strive for excellence in achieving our clients' and our company's goals; who have the highest ethical standards - individuals who take pride in making a difference in people's lives.
COMPANY SIZE
1,000 to 1,499 employees
INDUSTRY
Security and Surveillance
FOUNDED
1971
WEBSITE
http://www.aboutschwab.com/careers